Andrew J. Moodie

Andrew J. Moodie

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Geography. Quantitative surface processes and geomorphology to enable sustainable landscapes.


A complete CV is available here

Manuscripts in preparation and in review

  1. Vanderheiden, A., Hales, B., Moodie, A. J., & Güneralp, İ. (in review). ScrollStats: a Python tool for quantifying scroll bar morphology on meandering rivers. Journal of Open Source Software. [link]

  2. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Dong, T. Y., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., & Wu, C. (in revision). Abrupt and Transitional Deltaic Avulsions: Distinct Patterns of Stratigraphy due to Channel Connectivity. Geology.

  3. Lundeen, E., & Moodie, A. J. (in review). Quantifying differences between floodplain waterbody connectivity and river-floodplain connectivity in a coastal meandering river. Water Resources Research.

  4. Harris, M., Carlson, B., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T., Vachula, R. S., Struble, W., & Cordova, B. (in review). Sedimentary charcoal records poorly preserve the stratigraphic signal of grassland fire as informed by the 2024 Windy Deuce Fire, Texas Panhandle. Geomorphology.

  5. Ma, H., Dong, T. Y., Shaw, J., Vulis, L. M., Czapiga, M., Tejedor, A., Moodie, A. J., & Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (in preparation). The Growth Rate of Delta Channel Networks. Nature Geoscience.

Manuscripts published

  1. Moodie, A. J., Barefoot, E., Hutton, E., Nguyen, C., Wickert, A., & Marr, J. (2026). Short Communication: The need for open-source hardware, software, and data-sharing specifications in geomorphology. Earth Surface Dynamics, 14(1), 85–94. doi: 10.5194/esurf-14-85-2026

  2. Moodie, A. J., & Goudge, T. A. (2025). Fluvial reworking eliminates small craters, but does not meaningfully bias the Mars interbedded-crater record. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130. doi: 10.1029/2023JE008183

  3. Tull, N., Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2024). River-Floodplain Connectivity and Residence Times Controlled by Topographic Bluffs Along a Backwater Transition. Frontiers in Water, 5. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1306481

  4. Hariharan, J., Wright, K., Moodie, A., Tull, N., & Passalacqua, P. (2023). Impacts of human modifications on material transport in deltas. Earth Surface Dynamics, 11(3), 405–427. doi: 10.5194/esurf-11-405-2023

  5. Limaye, A. B., Adler, J. B., Moodie, A. J., Whipple, K. X., & Howard, A. D. (2023). Effect of Standing Water on Formation of Fan-Shaped Sedimentary Deposits at Hypanis Valles, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102367

  6. Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B., Dong, T., Ma, H., Moodie, A. J., Tsai, F. T. C., Li, A., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2023). Pace of meandering and avulsion set river sinuosity near coast on Earth and Mars. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01231-1

  7. Moodie, A., Carlson, B., Foreman, B., Kwang, J., Naito, K., & Nittrouer, J. (2022). SedEdu: software organizing sediment-related educational modules. Journal of Open Source Education, 5(56), 129. doi: 10.21105/jose.00129

  8. Hariharan, J., Passalacqua, P., Xu, Z., Michael, H. A., Steel, E., Chadwick, A., Paola, C., & Moodie, A. J. (2022). Modeling the Dynamic Response of River Deltas to Sea-Level Rise Acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(9). doi: 10.1029/2022JF006762

  9. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Wang, Y., & Lamb, M. P. (2021). Suspended-sediment induced stratification inferred from concentration and velocity profile measurements in the flooding lower Yellow River, China. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027192

  10. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Swanson, T. E., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T. Y., Ma, H., Kineke, G. C., Pan, M., & Wang, H. (2021). The effects of engineered diversions and natural avulsions on abandoned lobe development and shoreline stability. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2021GL092438

  11. Moodie, A. J., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2021). Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101649118

  12. Moodie, A. J., Hariharan, J., Barefoot, E., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). pyDeltaRCM: a flexible numerical delta model. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(64), 3398. doi: 10.21105/joss.03398

  13. Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). When does faulting-induced subsidence drive distributary network reorganization? Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22). doi: 10.1029/2021GL095053

  14. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Wu, B., Lamb, M. P., Zhang, Y., Mohrig, D., Fu, X., Naito, K., Wang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, G., Hu, C., & Parker, G. (2020). Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911225116

  15. de Leeuw, J., Lamb, M. P., Parker, G., Moodie, A. J., Haught, D., Venditti, J. G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2020). Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel. Earth Surface Dynamics. doi: 10.5194/esurf-8-485-2020

  16. Lamb, M. P., Leeuw, J. de, Fischer, W., Moodie, A. J., Venditti, J. G., Nittrouer, J. A., Haught, D., & Parker, G. (2020). Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed-material. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0602-5

  17. Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., McElroy, B. J., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., Ma, H., & Moodie, A. J. (2020). Predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta channel network under varying discharge conditions. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027199

  18. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Moodie, A. J., Kineke, G. C., Kumpf, L. L., Ma, H., Parsons, D. R., & Wang, H. (2020). Infilling Abandoned Deltaic Distributary Channels Through Landward Sediment Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(2). doi: 10.1029/2019JF005254

  19. Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., Moodie, A. J., Parker, G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2019). Origin of a Preferential Avulsion Node on Lowland River Deltas. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(8), 4267–4277. doi: 10.1029/2019GL082491

  20. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., & Parker, G. (2019). Modeling Deltaic Lobe-Building Cycles and Channel Avulsions for the Yellow River Delta, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(11), 2438–2462. doi: 10.1029/2019JF005220

  21. An, C., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Naito, K., & Parker, G. (2018). Morphodynamic model of lower Yellow River: flux or entrainment form for sediment mass conservation? Earth Surface Dynamics, 6(4), 989–1010. doi: 10.5194/esurf-6-989-2018

  22. Moodie, A. J., Pazzaglia, F. J., & Berti, C. (2017). Exogenic forcing and autogenic processes on continental divide location and mobility. Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/bre.12256

  23. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Naito, K., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, Y., Wu, B., & Parker, G. (2017). The exceptional sediment load of fine-grain dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China. Science Advances, 3, 7. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1603114